I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Nearly fell out of my chair !!!!!  Guess I'm gone too.

Jackie

Susie - yes, the Sunshine coast....and I think it was plain "Noosa," not "Noosaville."  I just took a bus there from the Brisbane airport and was picked up by car off to the place in the hills.  Whereever that was, there was a Hemp Store nearby. Hemp - old papa Hearst made that illegal here in the USA as he thought that would compete with paper and he had invested in a nice conifer forest near where I live now.  I only went back to Noosa one evening for Pavlova, with a new friend, then my last night before leaving.  It was a coolish time of year...maybe July?  Didn't really see the beaches.  Brisbane reminded me so much of Portland, Oregon, where I go for treatment.

We had a dream vacation in Chicago right after the crash of the stock market.  No one was traveling but we started checking rates and got a beautiful room at the Blackstone overlooking Lake Michigan.  We could see Navy Pier, the Planetarium and the Field Museum from our window.  The added fun was taking the train from Arkansas to Chicago.  It wasn't quite as fancy as the Orient Express but the set up of the Pullman car was just the same.  The trip was as much fun as the destination.

Of course now that the Stock Market has recovered and the rich are traveling again, we couldn't afford any of it.  I am so glad that we jumped at the chance.  I love Chicago.

Oh my bleeding eyes ... ack.  Almost makes you feel sorry for Romney doesn't it? 

Except it is really hard to feel sympathy with someone that has no soul.

Discredit to E. Fudd.

Jackie

See-I didn't take it as a slam on Romney(though it is) so much as an open admission that the right will vote for anyone that isn't Obama-even if it is Elmer Fudd. I think Rush is speaking the absolute truth this time. 

Believe me-I never agree with Rush!

Mary 

Didn't Elmer Fudd shoot first and aim later too??  And always lose to the wascally wabbit.

Susie - it was a retreat house on some land.  Some dorm like areas and small common areas.  When I took walks, it seemed like small farms, some hills with forests, some pastures, berry bushes...very mixed, but a fair amount of trees. Kangaroos would pass by outside the windows during lecture.  The name you mention does not sound familiar, but then I'm not sure if I ever knew where this place was.  I just got in a car and arrived about 30 minutes or so later from Noosa.

Ha! Like the Palin joke. My poor hubby actually refrained from voting that year. He has always voted republican, always and only, but he couldn't bring himself to vote for a ticket that included Palin.

There is a similar Merkel joke going around Greece:

Merkel is visiting Greece, and goes through passport control in Athens. The officer asks, "Name?"

"Angela Merkel"

"Occupation?"

"No, no, just here for a few days." 

What CLC said.  No Soul, definitely.  Get the scariest robotic feeling when I watch, listen to him.  NOW< as to Elmer Fudd, wasn't he a very funny, kindly character. Never had anything bad to say about Elmer Fudd.

Never listened to that person on the radio, don't even know what his voice sounds like, unless I hear clips of it on the evening news. DOES say something deeply disturbing about a country, where many people get their, ah, "news" and even worse form opinions ( or just take on his) from listening to that kind of a person.  It used to be called "hate speech" - but even the Southern Poverty Law Center ( one of the places I MOST RESPECT) doesn't bother to try to deal with it.  Sadly, that kind of language seems acceptable to too many people living today.

At least Jon Stewart LAUGHS at himself as he's satarizing the "news."

Eleanor Roosevelt would shudder.  As do so many, many of us who wish for a more civilized discourse.

I would go with CLC as well.....no soul, and that people pay any attention at all so mystifies me.  He needs to be in a quiet room somewhere..medicated, at least until the election is over.  Don't know if I'm allowed to say that.

Jackie